William Hinsberg, Joy Cheng, et al.
SPIE Advanced Lithography 2010
We have designed and carried out a tricrystal experiment, based on macroscopic coherence effects, flux quantization, and pair tunneling, to study the microscopic phase of the pair wave function in high-Tc cuprate superconductors. Using a high-resolution scanning SQUID microscope, we have made the first direct observation of spontaneously generated half-integer flux quanta in controlled-orientation tricrystal rings and blanket films. By varying the grain misorientation and the grain-boundary angles in the tricrystal, we have proved that the order parameter in YBa2Cu3O7 and Tl2Ba2CuO6+δ has nodes and lobes consistent with d wave, but not with g wave pairing symmetry.
William Hinsberg, Joy Cheng, et al.
SPIE Advanced Lithography 2010
Min Yang, Jeremy Schaub, et al.
Technical Digest-International Electron Devices Meeting
Q.R. Huang, Ho-Cheol Kim, et al.
Macromolecules
Biancun Xie, Madhavan Swaminathan, et al.
EMC 2011